Photoshop CS3 beta offers speed boost

Digit Online Adobe have released a beta of Photoshop CS3. It will work for 2 days without a serial number, but it is completely functional. ...

ExpressCard 5-in-1 reader

Digit Online GriffinTechnologies have announced an ExpressCard suitable for the Apple MacBook Pro that is a 5-in-1 memory card, it supports ...

Comments from Steve Kennedy - Wifi news, WiMAX news, muni WiFi and wireless broadband news in Fierce

Comments from Steve Kennedy - Wifi news, WiMAX news, muni WiFi and wireless broadband news in Fierce FierceWiFi published some WiMAX related...

Digit Online

Digit Online It's been a long time coming, but the RSC (Radio Spectrum Committee) which is made up of 22 EU member states has approved U...

Ofcom Website | 1785-1805 MHz in Ireland and Northern Ireland

Ofcom Website | 1785-1805 MHz in Ireland and Northern Ireland This is a 20MHz unpaired band. Ofcom are publishing regulations for the band i...

Switching broadband provider | Ofcom

Switching broadband provider | Ofcom From Feb 14th 2007 broadband providers will have to supply consumers with a MAC upon request and free o...

Terms of Reference | Ofcom

Terms of Reference | Ofcom Ofcom is conducting a review of premium rate services and whether the legislative regime should be changed, there...

Digit news - EU approves sale of AOL UK

Digit news - EU approves sale of AOL UK The EC (European Commission) has approved the sale of AOL UK to Carphone Warehouse (CPW), so the CPW...

Award of available spectrum: 2500-2690 MHz, 2010-2025 MHz and 2290-2300 MHz | Ofcom

Award of available spectrum: 2500-2690 MHz, 2010-2025 MHz and 2290-2300 MHz | Ofcom Ofcom is holding a consultation on various frequency ban...

Telabria goes titsup, takes down So Broadband | The Register

Telabria goes titsup, takes down So Broadband | The Register : "OrbitalNetOrbitalNet" Another WISP (wireless ISP) has gone down th...

7 foot balloon makes its first appearance

A while back I obtained a 7 foot diameter commercial helium balloon. It sat around for a long time while I tried to get someone to make a co...

Digit news - UK cities in spat over metro Wi-Fi claims

Digit news - UK cities in spat over metro Wi-Fi claims Bt's launching it's wired cities, the Cloud are going nowhere fast and Citysp...

Parallels beta works with Boot Camp partition

Parallels beta works with Boot Camp partition Parallels, the software that supports virtual machines under Intel versions of MacOS X has lau...

Digit news - Sun enhances mobile delivery platform

Digit news - Sun enhances mobile delivery platform Sun is poised to announce it's Sun Java System Content Delivery Server (CDS) at the I...

Ofcom advertises DAB national radio multiplex licence | Ofcom

Ofcom advertises DAB national radio multiplex licence | Ofcom Last week Ofcom started the process for a new UK wide (and Isle of Mann) DAB m...

Ofcom Licensing Centre services | Ofcom

Ofcom Licensing Centre services | Ofcom Last week Ofcom launched an on-line licensing service for amateur radio and ship's licenses (the...

Digit news - Apple releases Mac OS X Security Update

Digit news - Apple releases Mac OS X Security Update Apple have released a major security update for Macs. As well as fixing bugs in aplicat...

Digit news - Marvell chips speed mobile Web browsing

Digit news - Marvell chips speed mobile Web browsing : Marvell acquired the Xscale series of processors from Intel and the new range PXA 300...

Digit news - Intel readies 45nm quad-core chips

Digit news - Intel readies 45nm quad-core chips Based on the same micro-architechture as the current Core 2 Due these chips use a new 45nm p...

Digit news - AMD debuts four-core "4x4" motherboard

Digit news - AMD debuts four-core "4x4" motherboard AMD has launched a motherboard capabable of taking two dual-core Athlon 64 FX-...

Digit news - Matrox offers Mac users Head2Go

Digit news - Matrox offers Mac users Head2Go Matrix have released Mac software for their DualHead2Go and TripleHead2Go external boxes that a...

Pico GSM cells, what's the fuss all about? | The Register

Pico GSM cells, what's the fuss all about? | The Register : "1781.7-1785MHz paired with 1876.7-1880MHz (known as the GSM Guard band...

Ofcom flicks switch on iPod FM | The Register

Ofcom flicks switch on iPod FM | The Register My article on legalising low power transmitters and other things.

Review of the wholesale broadband access markets 2006/07 | Ofcom

Review of the wholesale broadband access markets 2006/07 | Ofcom Ofcom are holding a consultation on the Wholesale Broadband Access (WBA) ma...

Higher power limits for licence-exempt devices | Ofcom

Higher power limits for licence-exempt devices | Ofcom Ofcom held a consultation to raise power limits in both the 2.4GHz and 5.8GHz bands. ...

Digit news - Powerful Mac admin utility updated

Digit news - Powerful Mac admin utility updated Though the utility looks nice, Xupport costs US$19.90. Onyx which does very similar function...

O2 picocells to send mobile calls via LANs - 20 Nov 2006 - IT Week

O2 picocells to send mobile calls via LANs - 20 Nov 2006 - IT Week It seems O2 are going to use their GSM Guard Band license to offer in-bui...

Vodafone fesses to premium rate SMS overcharging | The Register

Vodafone fesses to premium rate SMS overcharging | The Register Here's an article I wrote about Vodafone overcharging some Pay as You Ta...

Starbucks Card

Though I hate to say it, it's an impressive system. You get a card (any card) and then top it up with cash. You can then use the card in...

Review of General Condition 18 – Number portability | Ofcom

Review of General Condition 18 – Number portability | Ofcom Ofcom is holding a consultation to allow rapid porting of numbers across network...

Digit news - Apple boosts RAW support for digital cameras

Digit news - Apple boosts RAW support for digital cameras The new update supports the Canon EOS400 and Nikon D80 amongst other and fixes pro...

Digit news - The 300GB DVD debuts

Digit news - The 300GB DVD debuts Hitachi Maxell is producing a 300GB holographic DVD. It will be initially available to the entertainment i...

Digit news - Intel bids for rebound with quad-core chips

Digit news - Intel bids for rebound with quad-core chips Intel is launching various Quad Core CPU's. The Xeon 5300 range are designed fo...

Apple does iPods on planes

Apple has announced plans with Air France, Continental, Delta, Emirates, KLM and United to put iPod docks into plane seats. They will connec...

Ofcom silent on VoIP regulation - Telecoms - Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com

Ofcom silent on VoIP regulation - Telecoms - Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com Ofcom was meant to publish regulation on V...

MacBooks now Core 2 Duo

Apple today updated the MacBooks to the Core 2 Duo CPU. They now come standard with 1GB of RAM and bigger hard disks (they now support up to...

Ofcom to lightly license 71-76GHz & 81-86GHz Bands.

Ofcom is going to lightly license the 71-76GHz & 81-86GHz Bands, allowing fixed point to point high bandwidth links. There will be an un...

1m unbundled lines

The independent Office of the Telecommunications Adjudicator ( OTA ) has announced that there are now one million unbundled lines. When 1.5m...

LLU not hitting rural areas

IT Week quoted me again re rural broadband and who's going to survive the broadband consolidation wars.

Windows CE 6.0 released

Microsoft have released Windows CE 6.0, this is also available under their Shared Source Initiative which allows developers to customise the...

Dell and AMD now bed partners

Dell has released a notebook based on AMD CPUs. The Inspiron 1501, allows configuration options of a Sempron, mobile Turion 64, and dual-cor...

WirelessHD

A new wireless protocol is being developed, WirelessHD which is HDMI over wireless. Designed to remove the need for cables between systems, ...

U3 USB/Flash drive software

U3 is a really clever system whereby applications are modified to work with U3 and when say a USB drive is inserted into a PC the apps are ...

Adobe CS3 to be universal

Though Adobe's Soundbooth will only run on Intel based machines (Windows or MacOS X), Adobe's next generation of Creative Suite tool...

Demon up for sale

As reported by the Daily Telegraph Demon are up for sale. It's looks like THUS are following C&W's lead in "concentrating ...

UK Skype users get free calls

Well almost, Skype's Talk for Britain campaign offers free calls to UK landlines (geographic numbers) for 6 months. However UK users ha...

Orange's UK network falls over due to human error

It seems Orange's network outage was due to network upgrade that went wrong, someone put an acl on the wrong system or interface which t...

BT going to bid for 2.5GHz UK spectrum?

BT is expected to be a front runner in the bidding for the 2.5GHz license that Ofcom expects to make available next year, though it wont act...

Bryce for $6

DAZ 3D have announced the next version of Bryce (v6) and Platinum club members can purchase it for the pricely sum of $6. Bryce has a dedica...

Ofcom issue new guidelines for radio test licenses

Ofcom have published guidelines for radio test licenses. These can be for equipment that is used to demonstrate new radio technology and su...

Sony fights back at Apple

Sony is to include noise cancelling technology in it's Walkman music players. They contain a microphone which reduce noise in the 100Hz ...

Intel debuts Core 2 Quad in November

Intel is releasing it's new Core 2 Quad CPU in November at an HP event. HP are aiming at high end users (CAD, analysis etc) but the main...

E-Frontier announces Poser 7

Poser is a 3D character animation program that's been around for a long time. The new version contains two new models, but apart from th...

Flapjax - not eddible

A new language called Flapjax is now available which should make programming with AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) much easier. It wa...

Fry's - get a bargain

Fry's is an amazing store, it's got lots of stuff and some at amazing pricing. This wekend they had a special offer on Seagate 400GB...

Apple Wireless Mighty Mouse

It's a great mouse. The wired version does everything you could want, the wireless one makes life so much easier - especially with a lap...

Arqiva Limited wins 412MHz spectrum

Arqiva Limited one the UK spectrum award for all 4 UK areas of 412.0 MHz-414.0 MHz and 422.0 MHz-424.0 MHz, they paid £1,500,025. Other comp...

C&W consolidates Bulldog staff

It seems anyone in the Bulldog division who competes with a C&W employee directly is to loose their job. Who's going to go at AOL no...

Internet in the air for free

Flying to the US (west coast) is normally not an exciting experience, though you do get to watch lots of movies you wouldn't normally. S...

Carphone Warehouse buys AOL UK for £370m

Carphone Warehouse (CPW) has purchased the UK division of AOL for £370m. This may seem expensive (some £200+ per customer) but it's reas...

Confirmed, YouTube sells out to Google

Google have acquired YouTube for $1.65bn, their biggest purchase to date. Both companies feel each other will be a good fit.

MAX from Microsoft

Microsoft have released (codename) MAX which is designed to let users share photo albums. Though it can do that, it also has the ability to ...

Intel to buy NVidia

AMD is buying ATI (the Canadian graphics chip manufacturer) and now Intel is rumoured to be buying NVidia. NVidia makes high performance chi...

Google to buy YouTube?

Google are rumoured to be after YouTube making them an offer of $1.6bn. Google Video hasn't proved that popular, while YouTube is one (i...

JahShaka v3 released

JahShaka is an open source real-time video editing package that uses OpenGL as its underlying strength (which also supports hardware acceler...

Fonality buys Tribox

Fonality sells IP PBX systems based on the open source Asterisk system. Tribox is an open source effort which puts a GUI on top of Asteri...

Wibree, the next generation of PAN

Nokia is trying to introduce a new low power wireless networking standard called Wibree (WiFi, Bluetooth and Zigbee). It will support up to ...

Book this act

Navaku are a "circus" type act who work with ropes and bars. Sophie Richards is diminutive in size, but don't pick a fight, s...

Venice Project the next Skype

The founders of Kazaa and Skype have now annouced the Venice Project (named after a film of the same name). This will utilise a secure P2P n...

Low power FM transmitters legal (soon)

Ofcom is proposing to legalise the use of low power FM transmitters (i.e. the type used to link portable music devices such as MP3 players t...

Nintendo up profits by 20%

Nintendo have increased their expected profit figures by 20% on increased sales of the DS(lite) and games. They are also included forcasts f...

Ofcom figures show's BT dominance falling (but not by a huge ammount)

Ofcom's figures show that the number of lines, call minutes etc handled by BT compared to the rest of the industry are falling. Where B...

Unique from Orange to rival Fusion from BT

It's not quite Unique as Orange are copying BT, but their service will work on WiFi not Bluetooth (like BT's corporate Fusion servic...

Vonage on the go

Vonage will be offering UK customers a USB dongle which has the Vonage software (soft-phone) pre-installed. When first used it asks the user...

Toshibe announced slimline laptop HD DVD writer

Toshiba's SD-L902A will fit in a laptop and writes HD DVD. DVD and CD formats. Samples will ship to manufacturers by the end of this yea...

MacOS 10.4.8 released

Apple have released updates for both the client and server of MacOS X so it's now at 10.4.8. Nothing really major, just bug fixes and a ...

Telewest TVDrive dies

On Sunday my Telewest TVDrive stopped working with HD. Phone up Telewest and after 30 minutes someone eventually answered (well it answered ...

Auntie Beeb in dicussion with Microsoft

The BBC has been holding discussions with Microsoft to ensure their iPlayer (based on the Real Networks Helix player) will work on Vista. Ma...

Tiscali UK to dump 40% of staff

It's not actually as bad as it sounds as they are getting rid of 40% of the combined Tiscali and Video Networks staff (who they acquired...

ViaMichelin X-980T

Yesterday ViaMichelin announced the X-980T SatNav unit. It's got maps of Western Europe, uses the Sirf Star III GPS unit and has built-i...

Ofcom announces qualified applicants for 412-414 MHz paired with 422-424 MHz

Ofcom today announced the list of qualified applicants for the use of the spectrum bands 412-414 MHz paired with 422-424 MHz. The applicants...

Increasing the supply of mobile numbers

Ofcom held a consultation that closed in July 2006 about opening new mobile number ranges (071-075). They have now published a statement on...

iTunes v7

Though Apple have added lots of new (nice) features, on Windows XP it's definately buggy and very slow doing certain things. It's a ...

Low-end PS3 to have HDMI

Sony's PS3 will come in two versions one with a 60GB disk and one with 20GB. Both have Blu-Ray disk support. Initially Sony decided the ...

New Canon Wideformat printer

Canon's imagePrograf iPF8000 supports 44inch printing using it's Lucia 12-colour pigment ink system. There are two high density prin...

Lightroom Beta4 now available

As well as announcing the 4th beta of Lightroom, Adobe's photographic package, it also has a new name Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. Availab...

The fight for AOL UK continues and now Tiscali UK comes into the foray

AOL's UK business is up for sale, rumours have been flying round (including Vodafone being in the bidding), but now it seems the battle ...

Google Analytics

WOW, they are very impressive. Easy to set-up (if you've already got a Google Mail account, just add it to your services). Then Google g...

Canon's new Ixii (Ixuses)

Canon has announced some new cameras in their Ixus range. The Ti900 has an all titanium body, 10MP sensor and the new DIGIC III processor wh...

Apple updates Bootcamp

Bootcamp 1.1.1 is available for download. It now supports the new Core 2 Duo processors in Apple's new iMac and MacPro's. Download h...

Adobe update Creative Suite

Adobe are updating Creative Suite Premium to version 2.3, however it's a cost upgrade (around $159). It will contain Macromedia's Dr...

CSR develops WiFi VoIP chip

CSR the chipset designers have developed a reference Wireless VoIP phone (UniVox) which has a bill of materials of about £11. The phone supp...

Ofcom forces BT to connect to everyone

Anyone can offer a communication service offering voice and other services, this is known as a PECN (public electronic communications networ...

Ofcom reviewing wholesale SMS termination

Wholesale SMS termination is when an SMS terminates on a mobile network from another network. This affects all operators as they exchange SM...

Ofcom consulting on extending mobile termination price controls

Ofcom is Consulting on proposals to maintain mobile termination price controls when the current ones expire on March 2007. Vodafone, O2, T-...

Satellite Broadband on Trains

Ofcom has issued a statement on new licensing for the use of broadband on trains using satellite. This covers the 14 – 14.25 GHz band (alre...

Fring, free calls on your mobile

Well OK Fring isn't free, but uses VoIP and P2P technologies utilising the data aspects of a mobile to transport voice i.e. free with a...

Wii hits Broadway

IBM has started shipping the new Broadway chip (the CPU for the Wii) to Nintendo in volume. It's based on the Gekko chip used in the Gam...

HD, HD-DVD disk developed

Toshiba and Memory-Tech have developed a 3 layer hybrid disk that can be read by both traditional DVD players and new HD-DVD players. The mo...

TIM for the clock

Telecom Italia Mobile may lose the Telecom Italia monica as they seem to want to sell the mobile business. Telecom Italia already have tripl...

Vodafone to offer broadband package

It seems Vodafone has stuck a deal with BT Group to offer a broadband package to its 16m UK subscribers. This follows earlier moves by Orang...

Skype Free the French

Skype have announced that French Skype users can call any French landline for free (until the end of December). Skype requires broadband and...

Pipex buy Bulldog and Tucan

Another 2 broadband providers fall to the consolidation in the telecoms/ISP markets with Tucan and Bulldog being acquired by Pipex who now c...

Apple iMacs go Core 2 and 24 inch

Apple has announced that all iMac models will have an Intel Core 2 Duo processor. CPU speeds come in 1.8, 2.0, 2.16 and 2.3GHz with up to 3G...

Blu-Ray HDDVD battle hots up

TDK have announced a prototype for a Blu-Ray disk supporting 200GB. The current disks support 25GB per layer i.e. 50GB per disk. HDDVD also ...

Samsung updates Q1

The new machine called the Q1P adds HSPDA (high speed download packet access), a new battery giving the system 5 hours of use and a processo...

Another IT Week mention

IT Week mentioned me on the front page of this week's edition re Open Source routers and their limitations. Maybe I should do this prof...

VoIP players already failing

It's seems Freetalk the VoIP service provided by Dixons is shutting shop a year after having started the service, users can migrate to V...

Megalaser 120mW laser

Megalaser are now selling 120mW green lasers mounted in a handy laserpointer. Of course they aren't laser pointers, they are just indus...

Canon announces EOD400D

This is the successor to the hugely popular EOS350D. It has got a 10.1MP sensor with cleaning technology that shakes the dust off it. It has...

Star Letter in T3

T3 published my letter re HD TV. I get another Slim Devices Squeezebox3, oh what fun.

Google beta Business hosted apps

Google have just launched a beta version of hosted Email/Calendar and Google Talk but under your own domain. Though only beta it could offe...

Ebay choose Google for advertising

Google's press release has some details. Advertising on Ebay isn't unexpected, though sellers may have concern that adverts will ap...

Windows Live WiFi Center

This is being made available to a select number of Office 2007 beta testers. It allows users to find WiFi hotspots as well as find out what...

Bryce 5 for free

Daz is offering free downloads of the 3D World software Bryce version 5. It's available for Mac and Windows, though v5 won't work o...

Gillette Fusion

5 blades, well 6 really as there's one on the back for trimming. It feels like a razor should and actually seems to work pretty well. It...